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Photo top left:
Private Don Shaughnessy
- WWII Veteran
2nd Division - 4th Brigade - Essex/ Scottish
Was wounded in Germany, 1st of MArch 1945 and hospitalized
in England
Liberator of the Netherlands
Photo middle left:
Mr. Erminio Zecca
- WWII Veteran
Gunner with the 29th Battery
11th Army Field Regiment
observer for Artillery and Communications
He was blinded in Northern Italy.
Erminio Zecca was first to arrive in Bergen op Zoom April
1945
Liberator of the Netherlands
(Mr. Zecca is also a Korean War veteran)
Mr. Erminio Zecca
would like to pay tribute to his brother:
Mario Zecca
Gunner and Surveyor for the 11th Army Field Regiment.
Mr. Erminio Zecca burried his brother who died on May 16th
1944 during the battle of Monte Cassino - May 11th)
Photo bottom left:
Mrs. Grietje Bouwman
of Guelph, age 89, gives a beautiful speech
and
presents a commemorative
print to the Mayor of Guelph
as thanks from Holland to its liberators. |
